Grant Shapps defends super injuction to suppress Afghan data breach

Cristiana Gigina

Former Defence Secretary Grant Shapps has defended his decision to keep the Afghan data leak secret. He defended his handling of the breach which was revealed on Tuesday after a super-injunction lasting several years was finally dropped. The leak led to thousands of Afghans being secretly relocated to the UK. In a post on X, Mr Shapps said: "There’s been debate about the Afghan leak super injunction. But the truth is simple: secrecy saved lives. Afghans who helped us risked execution. "Brit